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or plants infested or diseased with the aforesaid insects or diseases, the 

 aforesaid offlcer shall mark or tag in some conspicuous way all trees, 

 vines, shrubs, or plants infested with the aforesaid insects or diseases, and 

 shall give notice in writing to the owner or owners, tenants, or persons in 

 charge of such premises of the condition thereof; and thereupon, if such 

 person or persons so notified shall not, within ten days after notification, 

 destroy or treat the same in accordance with regulations and rules of said 

 officer, a copy of which will be sent on application to any person, then 

 said officer shall, through his assistants or employees, destroy or treat 

 all such trees, vines, shrubs, or plants. Whenever any such infestation 

 shall exist at any place within or on the property of any non-resident, 

 or on any property the owner or owners of which can not be found 

 within the county after diligent search by the entomologist or his 

 deputies, or on the property of any owner or owners upon which the 

 notice aforesaid has been served, and who shall refuse or neglect to 

 eradicate the same within the time specirled, it shall be the duty of the 

 state entomologist, or his duly authorized deputy, to cause said infesta- 

 tion to be at once removed by eradicating or destroying said plant dis- 

 eases or injurious insects, their eggs or larvae. The necessary expense 

 thereof shall be paid by the owner or owners of the real estate from 

 which said infestation has been removed in pursuance of this act. The 

 state entomologist or his deputy shall serve or cause to be served upon 

 said owner or any one in possession and in charge of said real estate 

 a notice stating the amount of said charge, and further stating that if 

 said charge be not paid to the county treasurer of the county wherein 

 said real estate is located, within twenty days from the date of the 

 service of said notice, that the same will become a lien upon said real 

 estate. Copy of said notice, together with the proof of service, shall be 

 at once filed with the county clerk, and if said amount is not paid within 

 the time therein stated, said county clerk shall spread the same upon 

 the tax^roll prepared by him, and said amount shall become a lien against 

 said real estate and be collected as other taxes are collected, and said 

 real estate shall be sold for non-payment of said taxes the same as now 

 or hereafter may be provided by law for sale of real estate for delin- 

 quent taxes. Should the owner of said real estate not pay said charges 

 within the stated time, the same shall be presented to the board of 

 county commissioners by the county clerk, and by them allowed and 

 paid out of the general fund of the said county by the county treasurer, 

 and when said amount is collected as taxes it shall be paid into the gen- 

 eral fund of the said county. The cost of eradication or treatment of 

 such infestation, as above stated, shall be paid to the county treasurer, 

 to whom the county clerk shall certify all amounts due as reported to 

 him by the state entomologist. The county treasurer shall forward to 

 the state treasurer on the first of each month all amounts thus received. 

 These amounts shall be paid into the general fund. 



Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of the state entomologist of Ne- 



